To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby…

Middling monsters died at the point of pitchforks, burned with torches, or at the butt of silver-capped canes wielded by angry, geriatric Poles. Middling people were dime-a-dozen, emptied souls, shorn sheeple, human husks. A good...

The zombie looks like a man, walks like a man, eats and otherwise functions fully, yet is devoid of the spark. It represents the nagging doubt that lays deep in the heart of even the...

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone’s funeral.

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.

He shouldn’t say things like that in front of the artworks, especially when they’re angry, but he always does.

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

Do not wander in the deeps,Where the Shriker’s shadow creeps.When he rises from beneath,Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.

The only sound is the audible record of her thrusts as she becomes wetter. Her beautiful voice echoing in his head, they share the sounds of their amorous flesh moving in unbridled rhythm.

I’m not a big fan of Halloween. Except for the dressing up part. I love picking out a costume. – Tory

Evan had heard it all before. A paradise underground, made for things like the worm in front of him. A place where Evan would forget he had ever been human, forget he had a mother,...

Sing a song of suspense in which the players die.Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie.When the pie was broken, the ravens couldn’t sing.Their throats had been sliced open by Stephen, the new...

Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it’s something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns...

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

Tina sognava acque placide e un sole nascosto da fronde e nuvole che non esistevano. Il sole d’improvviso si è fatto notte, una notte guasta e pesante. L’acqua si è infettata, agitandosi torbida intorno a...

On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.

I recalled something I’d read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn’t be as a demon but as an ordinary-looking guy with a convincing message of peace.

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

Strength and victory… What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Is it possible for one to enter sleep and wander while never waking? And if so, for how long can one survive this way?

Wha…what are you smiling for…? If I’d swallowed that needle, I’d have died! It’s not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!

She had gone through the veil and returned to Earth. But the veil only opens one way.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn’t known dogs could scream.

I can’t change my past, nobody can, I can make my future better

Everything is worse…if you think something is looking at you.

Cattle… it called us cattle…We’re hamburger, you mean.

I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to...

I’m sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I’m willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected...

You’re going through the horror of it, you’re going through the isolation of it but you’re being empowered by reminding yourself that you’re connected to everybody else.

I have found so much beauty in the dark,as I have found a lot of horror in the light.

Watching, watching, watching.

Longche willed himself to change into his true vampire form. As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when Longche’s rows of razor-sharp teeth sank into its throat. It...

, odgovorim joj ja pospano dižući glavu s klupe.

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health,...

Which grave are we in?” she said.”The oldest.” She felt Eddie’s puzzlement.”That can’t be possible. He looks like he was just buried.””There must be something at work in the chemistry of the island that’s preserving...

As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pried out one of earth’s supreme horors-one of those nameless blights of outer voids whose faint...

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

I have seen an evil thing this night,’ he said; ‘I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself...

One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

The last clear thought I have is of my grandmother’s rust-colored wall clock ticking away in the darkness of my apartment—my sanctuary where I dreamed and desired and hoped for goodness and love. I wonder...

Pretty doll,” rasped the dark haired vampire as he went about behind her, and she could feel his ravenous hunger practically radiating off him.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was ‘Event Horizon.’

I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I’d like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better...

That done, I sank into an uneasy sleep wherein I dreamed of an assembly line of pale, bloodless girls walking down an endless dark street and moaning softly for help. Somewhere, toward the edge of...

Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children’s gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not...

Helen mi prese la mano, come se fosse impaurita. Mi ricordava lo sguardo di una bambina in cerca del proprio padre. Scossi la testa e la abbracciai. Lei era sola almeno quanto me, la comprendevo.

Another big mistake you women make, never underestimate the cunning of a killer